I'm not going to excuse Nvidia - their driver is buggy and they're still missing DLSS3. Many of the problems I had were nvidia specific, especially anything touching wayland.
However my audio issues, or a bug where if you click the selection of applications when you alt+tab would lock gnome up and you'd have to kill the application from the terminal - those were not nvidia specific AFAIK.
I've also heard of non-smooth experiences from AMD hardware.
I don't think it's fair to recommend linux to anyone who would be scared off by the terminal.
I'm not at all saying it can't be relatively smooth sailing though, especially without a rolling os.
I'm not going to excuse Nvidia - their driver is buggy and they're still missing DLSS3. Many of the problems I had were nvidia specific, especially anything touching wayland.
However my audio issues, or a bug where if you click the selection of applications when you alt+tab would lock gnome up and you'd have to kill the application from the terminal - those were not nvidia specific AFAIK.
I've also heard of non-smooth experiences from AMD hardware.
I don't think it's fair to recommend linux to anyone who would be scared off by the terminal.
I'm not at all saying it can't be relatively smooth sailing though, especially without a rolling os.